Pollen, People and Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Ecosystem Change at Amboseli, Kenya
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1 Environment Department, York Institute for Tropical Ecosystems, University of York, York, United Kingdom, 2 Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 3 Department of History, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 4 Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, United Kingdom, 5 School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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